Speaker Series – Maria Montoya ~ Trinidad History Museum on the Historic Santa Fe Trail

Maria E. Montoya is an Associate Professor of History at New York University and the Dean of Arts and Sciences at NYU Shanghai. She is the author of numerous articles on the History of the American West, Environmental, Labor and Latina/o history and of the book, Translating Property: The Maxwell Land Grant and the Conflict over Land in the American West, 1840-1900. She is the lead author on the U.S. History textbook, Global Americans: A Social and Global History of the United States. She is also finishing up a manuscript, Fighting for the Fringe: Two Industrialists, Their Workers, and Employee Benefits, 1909-1950, which focuses on John D. Rockefeller and Josephine Roche, and their roles in defining the spheres of work and home life during the early 20th century. She is also working on two other manuscripts, A Chicana in China” which is a memoir inspired by an earlier work of Rudolfo Anaya. She is also working on a book project about the scarcity of water in the American Southwest, and the Rio Grande in particular. She is currently the PI for Zaanheh: A Natural History of Shanghai which is an interdisciplinary research team based at NYU Shanghai, and which was inspired by Eric Sanderson’s Manahatta Project.